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Special Weather Statement, NWS Twin Cities, MN

July 5, 2016Pierce County, Wisconsin

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this special weather statement at Jul 5, 2016, 7:13 PM CDT for Pierce County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 47 min. 4 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jul 5, 2016, 7:13 PM CDT (00:13 UTC)
Expired
Jul 5, 2016, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN

County Pierce County, WI

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 5, 7:20 PM CDTTSTM WND GST 55River Falls, WI.
Jul 5, 7:26 PM CDTTSTM WND DMG1 Ese Prescott, WI10-12 ASPEN UPROOTED AND BLOCKING ROAD ON HOLLISTER STREET (570TH AVE) IN PRESCOTT. POWER AND PHONE LINES WERE DOWNED BY THE TREE. REPORTED TO PIERCE COUNTY DISPATCH VIA MDC AND RADIO.
Jul 5, 7:26 PM CDTTSTM WND DMGRiver Falls, WI8 INCH DIAMETER TREE DOWN.
Jul 5, 7:52 PM CDTTSTM WND DMGRiver Falls, WI8 TO 10 INCH DIAMETER TREE DOWN.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 348 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 00:00Z on 2016-07-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 505 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 00:00Z on 2016-07-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -9 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
505 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-125 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1508 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
8 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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The text

As transmitted.

976 
WWUS83 KMPX 060013
SPSMPX

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
713 PM CDT TUE JUL 5 2016

MNZ063-WIZ023-024-060100-
WASHINGTON-ST. CROIX-PIERCE-
713 PM CDT TUE JUL 5 2016

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHERN ST. CROIX AND PIERCE
COUNTIES...

AT 713 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER RIVER FALLS...
MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

WIND GUSTS OF 50 TO 55 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
RIVER FALLS...HUDSON...PRESCOTT...NORTH HUDSON...BAYPORT...ELLSWORTH...
AFTON...BALDWIN...HAMMOND...ROBERTS...WOODVILLE AND ELMWOOD.

THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING HIGHWAYS...
 INTERSTATE 94 IN MINNESOTA NEAR MILE MARKER 258.
 INTERSTATE 94 IN WISCONSIN BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 1 AND 31.

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY CAUSE
LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.

LAT...LON 4455 9233 4457 9251 4457 9255 4460 9256
      4461 9261 4466 9264 4474 9279 4505 9278
      4497 9214 4457 9214
TIME...MOT...LOC 0013Z 288DEG 27KT 4484 9259 

$$

JRB

The office that day

Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 5, 7:16 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMPXAnoka, Hennepin, Ramsey4 hr
Jul 5, 7:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXDakota, Rice, Scott55 min
Jul 5, 7:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXCarver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott29 min
Jul 5, 7:32 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMPXBrown, Carver, Dakota, Le Sueur, Nicollet, Rice and 2 more118 min
Jul 5, 7:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXDakota, Goodhue64 min
Jul 5, 7:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXSteele, Waseca64 min
Jul 5, 8:29 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMPXGoodhue3 hr
Jul 5, 8:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXPepin, Pierce62 min
Jul 5, 8:26 PM CDTTornado WarningMPXPepin, Pierce34 min
Jul 5, 8:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXDunn, Pepin61 min
Jul 5, 9:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXEau Claire55 min

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.